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Homemade ketchup (or almost)

“Or almost” yes, because trying to equal
ketchup, it’s a bit like trying to make Nutella, or the creamy rice pudding of
my mother, just a plagiarism!

But it’s a good plagiarism this
time! The color may be completely different from ketchup, as the texture, but the
taste is quite close! So, even if we don’t get some real ketchup, we get a good
sweet tomato sauce which will be perfect with your “junky” food :)

The recipe is from “Oh my food” website,
I just switched some things according to my whims :p

For about 350ml of sweet tomato
sauce in « ketchup » style:

500g fresh tomatoes

½ big red onion

1 ½ garlic clove(you can use 2, I was really squeamish)

1 little pinch of Espelette hot
pepper

¼ tsp paprika

1 little pinch of four-spices
mixture(five-spices normally, well… ^^)

½ tbs tomato paste

50g brown sugar

1 tbs olive oil (rapeseed in the original recipe but I did wrong :o)

60ml cider vinegar

Remove the skin of the tomatoes after
slightly slashing them and boiling them a few seconds (no, we’re not in a horror movie, even if we finally get a nice fake blood
from 80’s movies :p). The skin will remove by itself.